Back to hobbies ... and Life

Finally got a decent photo of our black pug. He's a beut! He has to think about things alot before dealing with them. He has to sniff and sniff and sniff on a spot and think about what it all means. While the boston terrier would just take a quick sniff and head out looking for things to eat or things to chase. The collar he wears has lots of spikes on it ... just to keep Sheba from chewing on it or using it to pull him around.

-- the substitute bus-driver and retired psychobabbler ...

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Live Life! Get a little exercise ...

Madsen Cycles Cargo Bikes

This didn't seem to work the first time I attempted to post it on my blog ... so I tried to put it here.  I'm sure my baby-sister will think this could be a wonderful thing to run to the store on ... ?  You could even take the little one with you ... !  :-)

Just Driving


Driving down this country road,
I saw this beautiful home,
and just had to take a foto of it.
Hope you enjoy!

Out of Service

We had no internet service for most of this week.  

Time-Warner a.k.a RoadRunner had Daniel jump thru the hoops on a Windows machine (none of those dirty Linux or Apple machines please).  And they finally reached the conclusion that is was their own fault ... somehow they were losing 3 out of every 4 packets being sent.  It wasn't just us ... the computers in the town library had the same problem (also RoadRunner Internet).  

I was shocked when I was able to log on this morning and get something other than: "contacting server ..." endlessly with no response ... or very minimal activity happening.

So, YAY! they fixed it ... we once more have co0ntact with the world!!  :-)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Nothing Edible

The are now 4 blossoms open today.
Beautiful lilies.
Yes, I sat it up on the trashcan to take the foto.

Garden box #1 is flourishing ...
Of course, most of it is marigolds and basil 
from last year, that multiplied and reproduced.

Garden box #2
There are tomato plants in each corner
and the rest of what you see are potato plants.
NON-edible greens ... they are nightshade family ...
poisonous.

And something has decided that it really likes our kale plants.
We like them too,
And wish whatever it is would go away before it eats them all gone!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Another Foto of the those Pretty Flowers

It is just so pretty out there in the rain.

and close enough to the porch that I don't have to get soaked
 in order to take a foto of it.